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Nashville’s offensive success came mainly from another night of clutch hitting, as the Sounds hit 8-for-14 with runners in scoring position. During their three-game winning streak, the Sounds are now 14-for-28 in those situations.

Nashville, Tn – Pounding out a season-high 20 hits — including two homers, three triples and four doubles — the No. 2-seeded Oregon Ducks rolled to an 18-1 win over No. 3-seeded Clemson on Friday afternoon in the opening game of the Nashville Regional at Hawkins Field.

Oregon (43-18) advances to face the winner of Friday night’s Vanderbilt-Xavier game on Saturday at 7:00pm. Clemson (36-24) will face the Vanderbilt-Xavier loser in an elimination game on Saturday at 1:00pm.

Oregon’s Tyler Baumgartner finished 3-for-6 with a homer, two RBIs and three runs scored in Friday’s win, and Shaun Chase was 2-for-5 with a three-run homer. Nick Catalano added three hits and drove in three runs. «Read the rest of this article»

Nashville, Tn – Vanderbilt head coach Kevin Stallings has announced the hiring of Adam Cohen and Derrick Jones as assistant coaches on his basketball staff.

“I am excited to have Adam Cohen and Derrick Jones join the Commodore basketball family,” said Stallings. “Both are extremely hard workers, great recruiters, and good men, and have very impressive backgrounds. We look forward to these men interacting and mentoring our current players, and helping me find the next generation of Commodore basketball on the recruiting trail. We are thrilled to have them and their families in Nashville.”

Clarksville, Tn – Kirby Cannon has turned within the program to hire the latest Austin Peay State University football assistant coaches.

Brandon Jordan, who played for Cannon at Missouri S&T and then served as graduate assistant a year ago, has been hired as defensive line coach while Leron Eaddy, who followed Cannon to Clarksville from Central Michigan to play his final football season, will be the program’s defensive back coach.

APSU adds two new coaches to football program (APSU Sports Information)

In 2013, Chris Johnson had a year that was very good by most measures. He hit .321 with 12 home runs and 68 RBI and wrestled the third-base job away from Juan Francisco, for the good of everyone involved. He was more than just a throw-in on the Justin Upton deal and was a viable replacement to the departed Chipper Jones, though by no means was he an upgrade.

His numbers told two stories, if you were listening: that he was good, but also lucky. He hit .396 on balls in play, second-best full season mark for anyone this decade behind Austin Jackson’s 2010 campaign – and Jackson has been inconsistent at best since then. He strikes out a lot (116 times in 142 games), can’t draw a walk to save his soul (less than 100 in 540 career games) and while his line-drive rate of 27 percent was a career-best, the 27.5 percent flyball rate was an almost unsustainable career low. It was going to be close to impossible to replicate that, simply because free-swinging contact hitters who don’t draw walks rarely become career .300 hitters at age 29. So I, for one, was unsurprised when he exited April with an average in the .230s and the experiment as clean-up hitter was finished.

Atlanta Braves third baseman Chris Johnson (23) controls the ball against the San Francisco Giants during the second inning at AT&T Park. (Kelley L Cox-USA TODAY Sports)

Clarksville, Tn – Breigh Jones stated that her goal at the NCAA East Preliminary was to break 54 seconds, since she hadn’t done that yet in 2014.

Well, mission accomplished. And then some.

The Austin Peay State University track and field sophomore crushed her personal-best and the school record by nearly a second with a 52.82 second run on her way to a top-10 finish in the first round of the 400m dash at the NCAA East Preliminaries, hosted by North Florida.